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Squirrel meat. Any good?

Sbrammer said:
NOTE: From my experience, squirrel seen while deer hunting are not present when properly equipped for squirrel hunting. In fact, you will usually be run over with deer when squirrel hunting.
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I see - and shoot - more grouse when deer hunting than while grouse hunting. Frustrating. But a good excuse to get a suppressed .22 to ground shoot game of opportunity.
 
Fried squirrel, potato's, squirrel gravy, green beans, and sliced tomato is the late summer meal I look forward to all year. The wife and I both love it and she cooks it to perfection. I also enjoy shooting them with my .22 rifle. If I happen to get a few older ones they go in the crockpot with mushroom soup and come out falling off the bone.
 
Ok guys. I like squirrels and squirrel hunting.

I cooked it once where it was indeed falling off the bone, I think in an instapot. Meat was good, bones insufferable to get out. What's the trick? I'm all good on clean and skin out truly deboning is tedious, so what am I missing?
 
Horn said:
Ok guys. I like squirrels and squirrel hunting.

I cooked it once where it was indeed falling off the bone, I think in an instapot. Meat was good, bones insufferable to get out. What's the trick? I'm all good on clean and skin out truly deboning is tedious, so what am I missing?
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I just use quarters and backstrap. Cuts way down on number of bones


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Remember fellas, the moment you decide to go squirrel hunting you will have the biggest buck of your life walk up to you 10 yards away…I’ve always been afraid of that happening, so I haven’t squirrel hunted since I was a kid.
But they’re good eating…
 
TK161BOONER said:
Remember fellas, the moment you decide to go squirrel hunting you will have the biggest buck of your life walk up to you 10 yards away…I’ve always been afraid of that happening, so I haven’t squirrel hunted since I was a kid.
But they’re good eating…
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What a great day that would be on God’s green earth and a great experience
 
Hillbillyfab said:
There ain't many ways you can fix them I don't like. There's a squirrel rollup recipe by Parker Hall that you can do a web search for, I like to use for "first timers" that might be squeamish to the idea of eating tree rats. I like to throw several of them in a crook pot and cook them down till the meat is falling off the bone. Then use the meat in other recipes.
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^^^^ This! I do the same with wild Turkey legs or rabbit. Also, replace the chicken with squirrel for the classic “Chicken N Biscuits” dish.
 
There’s also an interesting recipe in Robert Newton Peck’s “A Day No Pigs Would Die”
 
Horn said:
Ok guys. I like squirrels and squirrel hunting.

I cooked it once where it was indeed falling off the bone, I think in an instapot. Meat was good, bones insufferable to get out. What's the trick? I'm all good on clean and skin out truly deboning is tedious, so what am I missing?
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I simply chew it off the bone but I have been called a heathen.:blush:
 
TK161BOONER said:
Remember fellas, the moment you decide to go squirrel hunting you will have the biggest buck of your life walk up to you 10 yards away…I’ve always been afraid of that happening, so I haven’t squirrel hunted since I was a kid.
But they’re good eating…
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I just take my son squirrel hunting for the last few weeks it’s open after deer closes or I’m tagged out. He and my daughter like trying new foods, I’ve fried it and served with a little gravy and done bbq shredded style like pulled pork, they liked both. Squirrel, rabbit, and shed hunting get combined some that time of year, excuse to be out in the woods with a .22 or a 410.
 
Sent a judo point flying right past a nutter’s ear 18 yds from my garage today.
My problem lately is when I get a squirrel in range from my saddle, I’ve got a broadhead on my bow. When I switch to the judo, a deer comes by and I need my broadhead. The struggle is real.
 
I para boil then that is my meat for Brunswick stew. I usually make at least one pot a year. Everyone loves it.

Pro tip, behind the knee on the back leg is a white musk gland. Slice behind the knee and pull that out. Cooking just one of those glands will ruin the taste of the batch.
Also. Fox, grey, and red squirrels all taste completely different. I prefer grey squirrels, but there is a ton more meat on Fox squirrels.
 
TK161BOONER said:
Remember fellas, the moment you decide to go squirrel hunting you will have the biggest buck of your life walk up to you 10 yards away…I’ve always been afraid of that happening, so I haven’t squirrel hunted since I was a kid.
But they’re good eating…
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True!

Here in central FL most hope to shoot a 80” buck

A friend was small game hunting after deer season on public and ended up with a 140” monster at 20 yds


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